Multicast UDP sending question

[Matthew Palmer]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:09:59PM +0100, Tony Rogvall wrote:
> Try the reuse port option? pass it to inet:setopts or gen_udp:open.
> 
> You have to craft it a bit your self.
> 
> reuse_port() ->
>     [{raw,?SOL_SOCKET,?SO_REUSEPORT,<<1:32/native>>}].
> 
> 
> where 
> 
> -define(SOL_SOCKET,   16#ffff).
> 
> and
> 
> %% enables duplicate address and port bindings
> -define(SO_REUSEPORT, 16#0200). 
> 
> This is tested on mac os x 10.4/10.5/10.6
> 
> Maybe it's the same in linux?

My Debian lenny system has that constant commented out, sounds like it's a
work in progress:

[...]
#define SO_LINGER       13
#define SO_BSDCOMPAT    14
/* To add :#define SO_REUSEPORT 15 */
#define SO_PASSCRED     16
#define SO_PEERCRED     17
[...]

- Matt